[Jewelry making - Article 01331] - Re: [Orchid] Fear of torch and students lighting torches

[K. David Woolley]

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    Think, relax, and open your mind. Fear is inhibiting while repect is
    empowering. Repect your torch, and when possible encourage others to
    do the same. Accidents can happen, as can bone heads (soldering two
    domes without an air vent driled into one of them, heat, gas expand
    rapidly, metal foes flying). Remember the basics: 

    - You don't want to light oxygen, therefore fuel out, then oxygen.
    Oxy off then fuel. 

    - For an enclosed vessel, if there's air in there then it will want
    to come out as air expands when heated, which of course soldering
    will do. 

    Relaxation techniques will help with the trepidation, as does
    acceptence of what can happen. We can easily be afflicted by such
    throughout our daily lives, but developing agorophabia out of fear
    doesn't help you. Moving metal, heating to allow the crystalene
    structures to realign, helping connect the bland to make to
    extrodinary. In short embrace the joys of what a torch offers the
    metal artists and all the wonderful things that are happening on a
    level we can't see and you'll more likely to come to love working
    with the torch. 

    With regards to others, it won't take long for you to learn who you
    don't trust to work around, also if horseplay start to occure, then
    simply walk away and come back to your work when it's safe. 

    Good luck in your metamorphasis from torch-fearer to torch-embracer. 

Kindest,

K. David Woolley
Fredericton, NB
Diversiform Metal Art & Jewellery
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